Due to the rise in COVID cases, this year the service will be online only.

Everyone from the Greater New Haven faith community is invited for our Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Service online. We are excited and honored to welcome Professor Brandon M. Terry to deliver the keynote sermon.

Dr. Brandon M. Terry is the Presidential Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies at Harvard University. Terry earned a PhD with distinction in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale University, an MSc in Political Theory Research as a Michael von Clemm Fellow at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, and an AB, magna cum laude, in Government and African and African American Studies from Harvard College. Learn more about Prof. Terry below.

Faith leaders from the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Bahai, and Unitarian traditions will join Rabbi Immerman and Cantor Giglio to lead the Service, which is sure to be another energizing, informative and inspiring experience!

Anyone is welcome to join us online via the livestream. The Zoom password was sent to all participating communities and everyone is welcome to join us via our live-stream without a password.

More about Professor Terry:

A scholar of African American political thought, Dr. Terry is the editor, with Tommie Shelby, of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harvard University Press, 2018) and the editor of Fifty Years Since MLK (Boston Review/MIT 2018). He has published work in Modern Intellectual History, Political Theory, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, Dissent, The Point, and New Labor Forum.

For his work, Dr. Terry has received fellowships, awards, and recognition from the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Center for History and Economics, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon-Mays Foundation, the American Political Science Association, the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, and Best American Essays.

His next book, tentatively titled, The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement: Political Theory and the Historical Imagination (Harvard University Press, forthcoming) interrogates the normative and political significance of different narratives of African American history in liberalism, radicalism, and Afro-pessimism through an original synthesis of methods drawn from philosophy of history, literary theory, and political philosophy.

Following this, he will release a book on the political thought and judgment of Malcolm X, tentatively titled Home to Roost: Malcolm X Between Prophecy and Peril (Penguin/Random House).